PURPOSE:
Since we are usually busy with managing our own classes we don't often have enough time to meet for collaboration with other educators. My English department doesn't even meet to collaborate. Wikis could change that. Now we can work with one another in an online environment at different times of the day. We can post lesson plans, school documents, links, resources, etc. We can work together to write articles for the paper, to plan events, to keep a communal calendar, and more. Anything we don't have time to get together and actually discuss could be done on a wiki. This is our chance to explore the possibilities.
Assignment:
Click on the page link below and, through collaboration and research, flesh out the wiki pages that follow. We need information posted about all of our options for educational uses of wikis. Try to make sure that useful information is written on every page. If you think of other ideas you feel need their own pages then create them! If you don't like one of the pages, delete it! This portion of the wiki is for you to play with. Pretend that you are all working together in a school and you are really collaborating online.
Be wary of editing the same page at the same time. You could lose work this way. (We could always get it back, but it's still a hassle.) This wouldn’t be as likely to happen in a professional setting because it is not likely that you would edit pages simultaneously.
Topics To Be Addressed (Click on the pages below and edit them.)
Types of Educator Collaboration
How should educators collaborate with one another to improve teaching practices? You could address this within the confines of one school setting, one district, or the world. Feel free to discuss anything relating to this topic or to how wikis could help.
Links to Examples of Educational Wikis
Find and post links to wikis you find which seem help in collaboration or which are good examples of student uses of wikis.
How Wikis Could Help Me
How could using a wiki help you, as individuals, improve your teaching practices? I’m wanting specific, individual examples of ways you wish you could be collaborating with other educators and how a wiki could help. This should be about things you might actually want to do next year.
Problems With Wikis
Discuss any problems you foresee in attempting to use wikis to collaborate with other educators or for student use. Feel free to research this and reference sites.
Wiki Resources
If you find helpful documents or web pages related to teaching people about wikis, please post them here.
Our Great Bear Wiki
Post anything you think we should do to improve our Great Bear wiki. Are we utilizing it to its full potential?
Remember, if you think of anything else we should be discussing here, add a page for it, edit this page, and link to the page you just created. We’re learning to share our resources here. What you’re doing now is supposed to be an example of how you might be able to collaborate within your profession.
To return to Mrs. Rollans' home page click on "Mrs. Rollans' Class" at the top of this page.
Class 2
Uses for a Community of Educators
PURPOSE:Since we are usually busy with managing our own classes we don't often have enough time to meet for collaboration with other educators. My English department doesn't even meet to collaborate. Wikis could change that. Now we can work with one another in an online environment at different times of the day. We can post lesson plans, school documents, links, resources, etc. We can work together to write articles for the paper, to plan events, to keep a communal calendar, and more. Anything we don't have time to get together and actually discuss could be done on a wiki. This is our chance to explore the possibilities.
Assignment:
Click on the page link below and, through collaboration and research, flesh out the wiki pages that follow. We need information posted about all of our options for educational uses of wikis. Try to make sure that useful information is written on every page. If you think of other ideas you feel need their own pages then create them! If you don't like one of the pages, delete it! This portion of the wiki is for you to play with. Pretend that you are all working together in a school and you are really collaborating online.
Be wary of editing the same page at the same time. You could lose work this way. (We could always get it back, but it's still a hassle.) This wouldn’t be as likely to happen in a professional setting because it is not likely that you would edit pages simultaneously.
Topics To Be Addressed (Click on the pages below and edit them.)
Types of Educator CollaborationHow should educators collaborate with one another to improve teaching practices? You could address this within the confines of one school setting, one district, or the world. Feel free to discuss anything relating to this topic or to how wikis could help.
Links to Examples of Educational Wikis
Find and post links to wikis you find which seem help in collaboration or which are good examples of student uses of wikis.
How Wikis Could Help Me
How could using a wiki help you, as individuals, improve your teaching practices? I’m wanting specific, individual examples of ways you wish you could be collaborating with other educators and how a wiki could help. This should be about things you might actually want to do next year.
Problems With Wikis
Discuss any problems you foresee in attempting to use wikis to collaborate with other educators or for student use. Feel free to research this and reference sites.
Wiki Resources
If you find helpful documents or web pages related to teaching people about wikis, please post them here.
Our Great Bear Wiki
Post anything you think we should do to improve our Great Bear wiki. Are we utilizing it to its full potential?
Remember, if you think of anything else we should be discussing here, add a page for it, edit this page, and link to the page you just created. We’re learning to share our resources here. What you’re doing now is supposed to be an example of how you might be able to collaborate within your profession.
To return to Mrs. Rollans' home page click on "Mrs. Rollans' Class" at the top of this page.